open sea

Chapter 1052
It was dusk when the emperor's letter was delivered to Ji Town. In the afterglow of the setting sun, the little eunuch Zhang Jing galloped along with the messenger rider.

In the lonely smoke of the setting sun, follow Qi Jiguang's footsteps and cross every beacon tower.

At the seventh pier, Zhang Jing saw Qi Jiguang who was camping under the command. Prime Minister Jizhen's tour of the pier has just begun, and Qi Jiguang will patrol the border in the next half month.

"Qi Shuai, His Majesty's will, private message."

Qi Jiguang who saw Zhang Jing was very surprised. This is not the first time he has seen Zhang Jing. He has seen Zhang Jing several times before, but this is the first time Zhang Jing has come to his border defense area. Everything will be passed on, and I don’t know if the envoy will come, and there will be a long-distance welcome.”

Zhang Jing's words are so comforting to Zhang Jing's ears. Thinking about the last mission, when he ran so far to Xiandao, Lin Afeng's ferocious appearance scared him to death.

Look at the savage little king over there, and look at the demeanor of our important officials in the capital, can they compare?
Zhang Jing was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear: "Marshal Qi is serious, this is serious!"

"The commander-in-chief doesn't know. Although His Majesty is eager to press a button to pass the letter on everything, we still have to ask our slaves to deliver the important person and important letter in person. You are an important minister of the court, Jizhen. Prime Minister, how can you be like those idlers."

Qi Jiguang squinted his eyes and smiled, and waved his hand along the beacon of the Great Wall, saying: "Please, please also invite the envoy to come in and talk about it in detail."

As soon as the voice fell, there were officers and soldiers guarding left and right.

Inside the beacon tower, the Qi family army had placed a few volumes of books that Qi Jiguang would use on the wooden shelf of the Fenghuo pier army. Apart from that, there was only a bedding and nothing else.

Zhang Jing continued to flatter, until Qi Jiguang couldn't stop laughing, and then asked: "Qi Shuai, we are here on behalf of His Majesty, and I have a few questions to ask, first of all, the former Fan Tuman asked to surrender for no reason. Why is this?"

Tuman is Chahar Mongolia, because in recent decades Chahar Mongol Khan was named Tumen Khan, and Ming Dynasty people even called it Tuman... To be honest, the embarrassing division of the Ming Dynasty also existed in the border area Between the army and the interior, the frontier army wants to know more about its neighbors but has no ability; the imperial court has the ability to understand but disdains.

"The barbarians submit to the table, please surrender?"

Qi Jiguang frowned, thought for a moment, then shook his head with a smile on his face and said, "Which way to go? Qi doesn't know about this matter; but if you want to talk about why they asked to surrender, I'm afraid I know a thing or two."

"A few months ago, a businessman who came out of Serbia said that the barbarian tribes rushed to make feather arrows, and many fortresses stepped up their defenses. The month before last, when the fortress outside Qingshan Pass heard the police, Jizhen mobilized troops to encircle and suppress them."

"Although they are raising troops and intending to plunder, they can't get any benefits under the piers. The Buddha wolf machine let go of the big guns and frightened them away. They were locked up by the piers everywhere. Lost the way back."

Zhang Jing didn't know anything about military affairs, but in order to please the little military emperor, he understood some common sense. He wondered: "The chariot camp sent troops to block the retreat of the barbarians. Didn't they come from cavalry?"

If you don't buy customs clearance generals, where will the whole cavalry attack, then what can you do in front of the Great Wall built on the high mountains?

But insisting that there is no problem with the cavalry attacking, after all, a large part of the barbarian soldiers are mounted infantry.

Qi Jiguang didn't go deep into this issue. He knew what the emperor wanted to hear from him, so he told Zhang Jing directly: "The scouts found the enemy's situation at the pier fort thirty miles away, and then the pier army stationed at the pier fort He and the chariots galloped out from three places and encircled them."

As he said that, Qi Jiguang smiled slyly and said: "We are faster than them, and several soldiers and horses gathered together to block his retreat. Where can the turtle in the urn retreat?"

The Great Wall is not for defense. It is a large-scale blockade line built by the ancestors along the mountainous terrain. It turns the difficult-to-pass area into a city wall, and the pass-through is built in the easy-to-pass area, just like building walls, doors and windows for a house. .

With walls, doors and windows, most of the time people will only enter the house through the door. Although there is still a possibility of being pried open with a security door, it is much safer after all.

Just like the passes of the Great Wall, business travelers traveling between the Great Wall and outside the Great Wall for thousands of years and wars have stepped on roads leading to the pass one after another, making the already difficult to pass mountains even more inaccessible.

There are even tigers in the mountains and jungles under the Great Wall on the side outside the Great Wall.

There are not many choices left for the army to pass through. Similarly, on the road close to the Great Wall, once the troops are besieged, there are not many choices they can make.

"Marshal Qi will send a telegram to go outside the Great Wall?"

After Zhang Jing heard Qi Jiguang's words, his first thought was that Qi Jiguang repaired the telegram outside the Great Wall, otherwise how could the frontier army be faster than the enemy army?

The nomadic cavalry's magic weapon, which comes and goes like the wind, is actually overtaken by Che Ying in Ji Town. Who would believe this in the past?
Unexpectedly, Qi Jiguang shook his head and said: "Qi never thought of repairing the telegram outside the mouth, it is too easy to be destroyed, not to mention that it would not be beautiful if it was robbed by the enemy."

"Ji Town uses lamps."

"lamp?"

Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "Yes, lights are much cheaper than telegraphs and save manpower. Every pier along the way has several small lights, and the lines are buried underground."

"But this lamp..." Zhang Jing was a little hesitant. He felt that he shouldn't doubt Qi Jiguang, but he couldn't understand it in his heart, so he asked, "Although Beiyang's glass lampshades are much cheaper since last year, one lamp is only enough for a few days." How can it be used to meet military needs?"

Qi Jiguang just smiled, raised a finger and said: "Don't say a few days, even one day is enough for a sergeant to use for a month. This lamp is not for lighting, but for warning."

"Is the envoy in a hurry to return? If your majesty is not in a hurry, why don't you stay in Jizhen for a few more days, and tomorrow Qi will compile this set of military orders into a letter and submit it to your majesty."

There is nothing special about Qi Jiguang's military information transmission, and it is not complicated at all. It just uses a few wires to connect the various piers, and then installs a gear on the stone roller of the piers to connect with a small underground generator.

The stone grinder is used to grind noodles for the pier army on weekdays, and to generate electricity during wartime. After choosing to connect the circuit corresponding to the number of enemy troops, the light of the next pier fort will flash on and off to warn, and the military situation can be restored in a very short time. It was transmitted to the camp of Ji Town, and the military order was sent by telegram from the camp to the generals guarding the key passes.

After this set of early-warning system that completed the multiple dissemination of information on the pier outside the mouth, the Jizhen camp, and the Great Wall guards in a quarter of an hour, even an army composed of ordinary battalions can easily encircle and encircle the enemy outside the mouth.

Qi Jiguang thought that Tumen Khan was suddenly surrounded by Ming army chariots from behind in the process of attacking Qingshan Pass. After misunderstanding and returning to the grassland, the more he thought about the meaning of this encounter, the more he thought about it. The idea is to surrender to Da Mingzi on the table.

Zhang Jing showed surprise on his face, nodded first, and then said: "I'm afraid your majesty asked the slaves to ask Marshal Qi the second thing. Your majesty asked: two years later, when Marshal Dongyang returns, can you take the Tuman to reset the third?" guard?"

Qi Jiguang rested his arms, twirling his beard with his fingers, lost in thought.

two years?

He thinks half a year will do.

Just let him build dozens of piers outside the Great Wall, and then build a base camp.

Wherever the underground line of the pier was laid, the Ming army would be invincible.

　Good morning!I have been out of town for the past two days, temporarily updating one chapter, and returning home on the 28th to resume two updates. I am sorry for delaying your reading!

　　
　
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